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\"crab<\/a>The Man of Steel cut down the dying crab apple tree outside our bedroom window 6 years ago. But the memory of its beauty and my sweet, laughing children remain fresh in my mind, thanks to the post below. I hope it makes you smile.<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the crabapple tree that guards our bedroom window began to flower. Yesterday, in the soft, warm breeze, it began to sluff off it\u2019s blossoms petal by petal in a slow and lovely dance. They looped and twirled and floated along until the west wind set them, ever so gently, between the waiting blades of green, green grass.<\/p>\n

I watched them dance, fresh and pink, and thought of my children. One May day years ago, Allen and Anne stood beneath the tree while Hiram shook the branches and petals rained upon their hair and shoulders. Our children danced, their hands raised high to catch the soft flood. Hiram\u2019s mother, here for Mother\u2019s Day, laughed as she snapped picture after picture. Finally the kids, tired and sweaty, flopped onto the greenish-pink, trampled grass.<\/p>\n

The tree is dying, has been dying for years, was dying while Hiram shook the branches. All that\u2019s left is one large limb, and we know that this year, after many seasons of procrastination, the tree must come down. \u201cBut wait,\u201d I asked my husband, \u201cuntil it blooms again, until after the petal dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yesterday, when the breeze arose, I took my mother-in-law\u2019s place behind the camera and took picture after picture of the petal dance. If you look closely, beyond the wind-shaken branch, you can see them falling, \u2013 tiny, hazy, pink raindrops. And I think if you are still enough, patient enough, then perhaps you will see what I do: two precious children, arms raised high in a springtime dance, so happy, so young, so loved.<\/p>\n

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